Evidence: | 'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue[of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mrs Oliphant's work is just in the right note.It is justice--and discriminating justice--rendered to that serene talent. I think she wrote too much (perhaps it's envy; to me it's simply inconceivable) but she was ever faithful to her artistic temperament--she always expressed herself. She was a better artist than George Elliot[sic] and, at her best immensely superior to any living woman novelist I can call to mind. Harris (an old friend of mine--in his work) can write more than a bit. Not to everyone is given to be so graphic and so easy at the same time. Besides his point of view is most sympathetic to me. Blackmore is himself--of course. But professor Saintsbury's paper interested me most--a bit of fundamental criticism most cleverly expounded.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 28 Aug 1897 and 6 Sep 1897 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Stanford-le-Hope county: Essex specific address: Ivy Walls Farm |
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Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Blackwood's Magazine |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | September 1897 |
Provenance: | owned sent by publisher |
Record ID: | 18600 | |
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Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 379-380 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to William Blackwood 4 September 1897, Stanford-le-Hope. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 379-380, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18600, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Footnotes in source text indicate that the articles referred to are as follows: 'Mrs. Oliphant as a Novelist' fn.3, p.379. This article possibly refers to her posthumously published autobiography; 'Walter B.Harris (1866-1933) 'During the Armistice: Impressions of the War' [between Greece and Turkey] fn./1,p.380; R.D Blackmore (1825-1900) 'Dariel: A Romance of Surrey' fn.2,p.380; George Saintsbury (1845-1933)'The Two Tragedies-A Note'.fn.3, p.380. |
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